Selected quad for the lemma: hand_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	bishop_n	church_n	presbyter_n	4,517	5	10.4419	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02486	The auncient ecclesiasticall practise of confirmation Confirmed by arguments drawne from Scripture, reason, councels, Fathers, and later writers. VVritten, vpon occasion of the confirmation of the Prince his Highnesse, performed on Munday in Easter-weeke, 1613. in the chappell at White-hall, by the right Reuerend Father in God, the Bishop of Bath and Wels, Deane of his Maiesties Chappell. By George Hakevvill, Doctor of Diuinitie, his Highnesse chaplaine in ordinarie. Published by authoritie.	Hakewill, George, 1578-1649.	1613 (1613)	STC 12614; ESTC S103566	14,283	32

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infant_n tingi_fw-la tingi_fw-la lib._n 2._o pag._n 72_o talis_fw-la ritus_fw-la confirmati●nis_fw-la valde_fw-la multum_fw-la utilitatis_fw-la ad_fw-la aedification●m_fw-la iwentutis_fw-la &_o totius_fw-la ecclesiae_fw-la conferrat_fw-la esset_fw-la etiam_fw-la consentaneus_fw-la &_o scripturae_fw-la &_o priori_fw-la antiquitati_fw-la et_fw-la paulo_fw-la post_fw-la haec_fw-la in_o colloquio_fw-la ratisponensi_fw-la anno_fw-la 1541._o proposita_fw-la fuerunt_fw-la fuerunt_fw-la cap._n 19_o para._n 13._o utinam_fw-la vero_fw-la m●rem_fw-la retin_n remus_fw-la quem_fw-la apud_fw-la vete●es_fw-la fuisse_fw-la admo●_fw-la nui_fw-la priusquam_fw-la abor●●●_n haec_fw-la sacramenti_fw-la larua_fw-la nasceretur_fw-la et_fw-la paulo_fw-la post_fw-la haec_fw-la disciplin●_n si_fw-la hodi●_n valeret_fw-la pro●fecto_fw-la parentum_fw-la quorundam_fw-la igna●ia_fw-la acueretur_fw-la qui_fw-la liberorum_fw-la institutionem_fw-la quasi_fw-la rem_fw-la nihil●_n ad_fw-la se_fw-la pertinentem_fw-la 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